Scott Wykoff's Blog

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

We'll Be Back In Two & Two

Sure I expected to see the likes of big time politicians like Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and Chris Christie here in Tampa at the Republican Convention.

And sure, I've been checking out the network types like Brian Williams and David Gergen doing their thing.

But I never expected to see the likes of Chuck Woolery, Pat Boone and John Voight here at the Tampa Convention Center. And all in a matter of minutes.

Throw in Geraldo and Herman Cain and you have yourself the star power so far at the RNC.

Party crashers? By no means.

Now let's see.

Love Connection is off the air, so that's not why Chuck Woolery is here. Move over C-4, the former TV game show host is now a radio talk show host with his own West Coast Network. At a boy Chuck!

Now do you think his producer tells him they will be back in "two and two" when Chuck goes to a commercial break?

So what is John Voight doing here at the RNC? I'm still trying to figure that out. Maybe he's here because he's John Voight and if John Voight wants a credential to a national political convention he gets it.

While I saw Voight autographing a baseball for a convention goer, all I could think was why didn't the guy ask him to bite a pencil for him instead. You know, the infamous number two pencil that George Castanza found in the glove compartment of the used Chrysler Le Baron he bought after he was told it belonged to John Voight.

O.K., I know, too much information.

But how about Pat Boone showing-up here at the RNC!

For a minute I thought it was Elvis (who Boone actually toured with in the 50s). There he was behind some big sunglasses and sporting a white suit. No, it was Pat Boone.

I know he owns a theatre not too far from here in Myrtle Beach, but again, did anyone expect to see Pat Boone at the Republican National Convention? I didn't.

Now two people who I would expect to see here are Herman Cain and Geraldo Rivera. They didn't disappoint. Both have landed on their feet in their second careers of yes, being talk show hosts.

Who knows? Maybe I'll land an interview with Mitt Romney before I leave Tampa. But something tells me when this blogger returns to Baltimore in 10 days, more people will be asking my about my interview with John Voight rather than the interview with the GOP Presidential nominee.

But that's conventions for ya!

And look, Susan Molinari is getting a kick out of it here at the RNC in Tampa.